Lipetsk, Russian Federation

New Years was in Lipetsk, a town near Moscow. After the countdown and the amateur fire-works competition (from various windows of flats, including ours), ~15 of us Zatsepins all huddled outside into the cold, to join the festivities down in some nearby ...

Visited the town that the eldest living Zatsepins grew up in (Grandpa and his brothers), Gryazi. Zhen'ka made this amazing wine, a huge bottle of it, for the car-load to warm up to (you don't get tipsy, you get rosy and enjoy the snow more); but by ...